All the Crossroads Wheel Blocks

Here are 36 blocks on the wall. I actually made 38-ish plus parts but some didn't make the cut. 

I don't know if this is the final layout or not. When moving blocks around, these are my considerations: 

- No arms of the same color next to each other
- No blades of the same color next to each other
- No backgrounds of the same hue next to each other except neutrals. There are several pink/peach tinted backgrounds, several yellow, and a couple green, and I don't want them side-by-side.
 - Least favorite blocks go on the far right where they won't be visible on the bed from most of the room. 

With sashing, this quilt will finish 98" square for a queen size bed with an extra deep mattress. The sides and bottom row of blocks will hang down. 

In the photo above, the block at the lower left looks like the background is too dark. I didn't notice this in real life. I'll look again and if it bothers me IRL, I'll replace the background with something lighter. 

Here are the last two blocks I made and one I revised to improve the fussy cut centers. Just by coincidence they all happened to be green arms/coral blades, so they're widely scattered in the layout. 

36 blocks, six fabrics each, no repeats. I even replaced two center squares where I had used a fabric then decided later to use it for arms. My buddy Kevin the Quilter challenged me to use no repeats, and I can say, I did it, 216 different prints. 

When you look at the grouping as a whole, there's a certain sort of messy cohesiveness to it. While no individual fabric is repeated, there is repetition of orange/coral/soft reds and teal/turquoise/cool greens. (Sorry, everything looks dark in the photos.) I worked at avoiding Matchy-Matchy blocks, instead pushing for some clashiness. I figured out a way to achieve clashiness that worked for me, and I'll explain it in another blog post. 

Next up, finding fabric for sashing. That will have to wait until I get a deadline project done, so these blocks will have to sit in time out for a month while I work on the priority project. 

Link ups: Small Quilts and Doll Quilts 12/1